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"Tag, You’re ‘It’: Preserving the Photographic Personal Archive Through Flickr.com" Mél Hogan

This short paper explores the idea of Flickr.com as a viable alternative to the traditional personal archive by comparing the traditional photo album with its virtual alternative; social networking software (SNS). Flickr.com functions as a photo repository online, but its popularity rests on the ever-expanding community that is created and maintained through the site. Participation, feedback and folksonomies are at the heart of Flickr.com. This paper explores these relationships, and delves into the deep dark question of the preservation of digital photography as it pertains to the increasingly public display of personal images.

 

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Mél Hogan is an MA student in Media Studies at Concordia University. Her research focuses on the relationship between preservation and cultural memory, especially as it pertains to queer archives and emerging social networking software on the Web.